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Assignment 1: Economic Basics (24.0 points) 1. Describe two examples of important things that financial planning skills can help you do, and explain why these things are important to you personally. (4-6 sentences. 2.0 points) Financial planning can help me to purchase items at low prices. This is important to me personally because purchasing items at low prices can help me to buy other items that I need. Financial planning can also help me to spend money responsibly. This is important to me because by spending money responsibly I'll only spend money on the things that I need instead of the things that I want. 2. List two examples of goods you have purchased in the past or may purchase in the future. (Complete sentences are not necessary. 0.5 points) Shirts and shoes. 3. List two examples of services you have purchased in the past or may purchase in the future. (Complete sentences are not necessary. 0.5 points) Landscaping and/or a babysitter. 4. One of the functions of money is as a store of value. How does inflation affect money's ability to store value? (3-6 sentences. 2.0 points) Inflation can affect the value of money to drastically decrease. inflation causes the value of something to go down. Inflation can cause the value of money to go down. 5. Imagine that you are considering moving to a new country and looking for a job there, but you first want to make sure the country has a strong economy. Describe at least three economic factors that you would want to research as evidence of the economy's strength or weakness, and explain how each factor would affect your decision to move there. (4-6 sentences. 3.0 points) A strong economy would be producing and earning more money than they spend. A weak economy would be that the consumers spend less money. I would research the country's GDP(Gross Domestic Percentage). I would research the

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